Breaking Wind

This Sunday’s New York Times magazine section had an Acrostic puzzle which, when solved, had a quote from David Mamet about how the weather strangely often follows the moods of man.  This fits nicely into what I was thinking about writing in today’s blog … hurricanes and global warming.

Just this past late May, NOAA predicted that the United States could have a very active hurricane season with 7 to 11 named hurricanes and with 3 to 6 being of the major category … see: NOAA News Story.  This then would be further justification for the global-warming alarmists … such as our chief climatologist in the White House.

Now we are almost through August and these dire predictions, once again, have proven to be a fart in a wind storm.  There have, so far, been no Atlantic-based hurricanes making 2013 one of the slowest starts of the hurricane season on record … see: Wordpress Story.  (Pay no attention to the chart there listing hurricanes by President … it is meaningless since it doesn’t account for the number of their terms.)

Yes, hurricane season is not over until November, so there is still time for this pessimism to come true.  Accuweather, a site I respect, predicts that things might still get dicey … see: Accuweather Story.  But if weathermen (not including Bill Ayers) can’t accurately forecast how things will develop in just the coming months, how are they going to nail how things will be over the next decade or two?

Breaking Wind

Billions for green energy, not one cent for nuclear ...  Here is a recent Op Ed from the New York Times revealing what the tree huggers are doing to the trees in Vermont ... all to reduce our nation's "carbon footprint" by a teeny weeny fraction of one percent. See: Green Mountaineering.  It's one thing to see huge wind farms on the barren highway passes between LA and Las Vegas, but on an entire ridgeline in Vermont?  Ouch!  And how do these hugely-expensive politically-correct projects get funded?  You guessed it ... mainly by that kindly old man with the billy-goat beard, striped pants, and a cut-away coat.

Have we learned nothing from the failure of the green energy initiatives in Spain? (See: No Gain in Spain.)  Please also read this link that describes an Obama $61 billion slush fund called the Federal Financing Bank ... see: Secret Government Bank.  This revealing reference was given to me by a contributor who also seems worried about how our current government is squandering billions upon billions of dollars on questionable green-energy projects ... none of which so far involves the splitting of an atom.

Afterthought: Here is a list of wind turbine manufactures: Wind Turbines.  Is all this green energy B.S. adding or subtracting from our balance of payments and employment levels?